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Trifacta
Trifacta is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012. It develops productivity platforms for data analysis, addressing data productivity issues in...
Trifacta
Trifacta is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012. It develops productivity platforms for data analysis, addressing data productivity issues in business intelligence and data science. The company has secured $224.3 million in total funding.
General information
Firm type
Asset Manager
Location
Region
Asia
Country
United States
City
San Francisco
Corporate office
San Francisco, CA, United States
Additional offices
Bangalore, India
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who leads investment decisions at Trifacta?
Trifacta's CEO Adam Wilson, who joined in 2020 from MarkLogic, oversees strategic direction. The board includes representatives from venture investors Accel and Redpoint. The company is venture-backed and not a family office; no single-family-office principal is publicly named.
Does Trifacta invest in other companies or only operate as a software firm?
Trifacta is an enterprise software company, not an investment firm. It does not manage third-party capital or make direct investments. Its revenue derives from software subscriptions and professional services.
What is Trifacta's competitive advantage in data preparation?
Trifacta's advantage lies in its original academic research — it was spun out of work on interactive data visualization by Jeffrey Heer at Stanford and the Wrangler project at MIT. Its algorithms automatically infer data types, suggest transformations, and handle variations in input format, reducing manual work by up to 80% for data engineers.
How does Trifacta relate to pandas, the Python library?
Wes McKinney, co-author of the pandas library for Python (2008), was a co-founder of Trifacta. However, Trifacta's product is a separate cloud platform; it does not replace pandas but integrates with Python environments and Jupyter notebooks.
Where does the underlying wealth for Trifacta come from?
Trifacta is a venture-backed corporation, not a family office. Its founding wealth came from founders who had commercialized earlier open-source projects. The largest shareholders are venture capital firms Accel, Redpoint, and NEA.
What investment stages does Trifacta target?
Trifacta is a software vendor, not an investment manager. It targets enterprises, not investment stages. Its product is sold to data teams in large companies and government agencies.
Does Trifacta have a specific geographic focus for its customers?
Trifacta sells globally, with major customers in North America (Google, Pfizer) and Europe (Credit Suisse). Its engineering offices span San Francisco and Bangalore; its customer base is primarily in financial services, healthcare, and technology.
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